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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  and 
  our 
  good 
  friend 
  Eenevier 
  if 
  the 
  English 
  public 
  could 
  be 
  made 
  

   aware 
  of 
  the 
  important 
  work 
  they 
  were 
  doing. 
  He 
  therefore 
  in- 
  

   vited 
  the 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  in 
  the 
  matter. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  announced 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  next 
  Meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  

   Prof. 
  Hughes 
  would 
  state 
  what 
  were 
  the 
  general 
  results 
  achieved 
  

   by 
  the 
  International 
  Geological 
  Congress 
  held 
  this 
  year 
  at 
  Bologna. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  communications 
  were 
  read 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  "On 
  the 
  Genus 
  StoUczJcaria^ 
  Dune, 
  and 
  its 
  Distinctness 
  from 
  

   ParJceria, 
  Carp, 
  and 
  Brady." 
  By 
  Prof. 
  P. 
  Martin 
  Duncan, 
  M.B. 
  

   Lond., 
  E.R.S., 
  E.G.S., 
  Pres. 
  K.M.S. 
  

  

  2. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Elasticity- 
  and 
  Strength-constants 
  of 
  Japanese 
  

   Rocks." 
  By 
  Thomas 
  Gray, 
  Esq., 
  B.Sc, 
  E.R.S.E., 
  and 
  John 
  Milne, 
  

   Esq., 
  E.G.S. 
  

  

  3. 
  " 
  The 
  Glacial 
  Deposits 
  of 
  West 
  Cumberland." 
  By 
  J. 
  D. 
  

   Kendall, 
  Esq., 
  C.E., 
  E.G.S.* 
  

  

  Specimens 
  and 
  microscopic 
  sections 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Stoliczkaria 
  &c, 
  

   were 
  exhibited 
  by 
  Prof. 
  P. 
  M. 
  Duncan, 
  F.R.S., 
  in 
  illustration 
  of 
  his 
  

   paper. 
  

  

  November 
  16, 
  1881. 
  

   Robert 
  Etueridge, 
  Esq., 
  F.R.S., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  The 
  List 
  of 
  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  was 
  read. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Hughes 
  said 
  that 
  he 
  proposed 
  to 
  issue 
  to 
  the 
  Committee 
  of 
  

   organization 
  for 
  Great 
  Britain 
  a 
  full 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  proceedings 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bologna 
  Congress 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  anticipation 
  of 
  that, 
  he 
  begged 
  to 
  offer 
  

   to 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  a 
  brief 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  results. 
  

  

  It 
  would 
  be 
  within 
  the 
  recollectien 
  of 
  the 
  Eellows 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  

   that, 
  at 
  the 
  Geological 
  Congress 
  of 
  Paris 
  in 
  1878, 
  two 
  principal 
  

   subjects 
  were 
  proposed 
  for 
  discussion 
  at 
  the 
  Bologna 
  Congress, 
  and 
  

   each 
  was 
  referred 
  to 
  an 
  International 
  Commission 
  named 
  by 
  the 
  

   Congress 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  The 
  Unification 
  of 
  Geological 
  Nomenclature. 
  

  

  2. 
  Geological 
  Cartography. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  2nd 
  April, 
  1880, 
  the 
  International 
  Commission 
  for 
  the 
  

   Unification 
  of 
  Geological 
  Nomenclature 
  was 
  convened 
  at 
  Paris 
  by 
  

   the 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Paris 
  Congress 
  and 
  the 
  President 
  elect 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  paper 
  has 
  been 
  withdrawn 
  by 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  Council. 
  

  

  